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May 23, 2023 | 
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The following prices are effective from Wednesday 05/24/2023 at 12:01 am Eastern Time until midnight Tuesday 05/30/2023. The next announcement is scheduled for Tuesday 05/30/2023 at 3:00 pm Eastern Time. $424.68 per ton for Runner peanuts$413.41 per ton for Spanish peanuts$428.31 per ton for Valencia peanuts$428.31 per ton for Virginia peanutsThese NPP are based on the loan rates for 2022-crop peanuts announced on July 6, 2022.
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May 23, 2023 | 
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ARC (Agriculture Risk Coverage) and PLC (Price Loss Coverage) commodity program payments for the 2021 crop year are discussed (see Data Note). They were recently released by USDA, FSA (US Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency). Payments were limited with high prices a key reason. However, the outcome of decisions by farmers also was a reason. PLC made higher average payments per base acre for only 4 of the 22 program commodities that farmers had put more base acres into PLC.
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May 23, 2023 | 
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Syngenta and FMC to bring to market breakthrough technology to control rice weeds in Asia. Photo: Business Wire Syngenta Crop Protection and FMC Corporation have announced an agreement to bring to market a breakthrough technology to control grass weeds in rice in Asia.
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May 22, 2023 | 
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Young rice at flood. ©Debra L Ferguson In the south, long and medium grain milled rice steady. Parboiled prices steady. Second heads and Brewers steady. Rice by-products: Rice Bran, Millfeed and Rice Hulls mostly steady. In California, medium grain milled rice steady to firm. Second heads and Brewers steady to firm. Rice by-products: Rice Bran and rice hulls steady.
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May 22, 2023 | 
agfax.com | Jeff Thompson |USDA Opens Full-Time
Though still in the confines of a seven-month-long trading range, excitement was rampant last week as July futures traded within 150 points of the top end. Reaching 87.98, its highest level since early February, it closed the week at 86.72 for a gain of over six cents. Such a move was most unexpected as it defied the grain markets, and a host of negative influences still exist.
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May 22, 2023 | 
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UNDO to scale permanent industrial-scale carbon removal via enhanced rock weathering following $13 million backing ● $12 million raised in new investment led by Lowercarbon Capital ● Additional $1 million renewal committed by Stripe ● UNDO’s industry-leading scientists are writing the world’s first ISO-compliant methodology for enhanced rock weathering UNDO, the leading nature-enabled permanent carbon dioxide removal company, today unveils a new investment of $12 million, led by Lowercarbon...
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May 17, 2023 | 
agfax.com | Steve Linscombe |USA Rice |Louisiana Truth |USDA Opens Full-Time
Rice research is just one aspect of The Rice Foundation mission (USA Rice) WASHINGTON, DC – The Association for the Administration of Rice Quotas, Inc. (AARQ) recently donated $250,000 to The Rice Foundation, a 501c(3) organization that represents all segments of the U.S. rice industry with a mission to further the well-being of its members and ensure the long-term sustainability and future competitiveness of U.S. rice.
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May 17, 2023 | 
agfax.com | Joelle Orem |Louisiana Truth |USDA Opens Full-Time
Program crops have dramatically different enrollments in the two major commodity title choices: Price Loss Coverage (PLC) and Agricultural Risk Coverage at the county level (ARC-CO). Soybeans has a high enrollment in ARC-CO, while peanuts, rice, and seed cotton have almost all their acres enrolled in PLC. Corn and wheat have switched back and forth between the programs over the lives of the 2014 and 2018 Farm Bills.
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May 16, 2023 | 
agfax.com | Louisiana Truth |USDA Opens Full-Time
Rural electric cooperatives, utilities and other energy providers will soon be able to apply for nearly $11 billion in grants and loans for clean energy projects, the Biden administration said on Tuesday. The funding comes from the $430 billion Inflation Reduction Act signed into law last August. Expanding clean energy to rural communities is critical to meeting the administration’s goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, officials told reporters on a Monday press call.
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May 16, 2023 | 
agfax.com | Louisiana Truth |USDA Opens Full-Time
(USDA) Thirty percent of groundwater organizations cite nitrate contamination as a groundwater quality concern. Nitrates can come from animal manure and chemical fertilizers that leach into groundwater. When groundwater pumping exceeds the volume of groundwater recharge, the concentration of contaminants like nitrates can increase. Nitrate contamination is a concern on more than half of the groundwater-fed irrigated acreage within groundwater organization service areas.
